KANTA Portraits: BUILD– Tangki Camera #10tangki #10TGbuild

14 February– Back to the hardest build Tangki Camera #10tangki #10TGbuild. I need to remeasure the frame and finalise this design. another week of lockdown! I need to buy more PVC pipes...

refitting tangki camera

photoshoot for video

sourcing vertical container

sourcing flat container

4 January– Finished building No. 10 Kamera Tong to working stage, took the first few prints thanks to Nabil Zakaria & the Walkabout Asia team ! momentus day... still needs refinement, but its working!!!! extra pics of production team. #10TGbuild

Tong Camera working title #10TGbuild

studio ready test

first print

Nabil removing masking tape

riveting the mid frame

lighting test

safelight shoot

Nabil operating camera

Nabil, first print

Nabil two portraits

Happy Campers production

Happy Campers team

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2 January– Lightproof testing and painting patches. install front standard / lens mount

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27 December 2020– Cutting the front standard to have more side wall space within camera

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30 November 2020– TG jacket– bike me... Today's errand took me from bangsar print shop, to north jalan ipoh camera accessories. nice to catch up with the Kuar Kee (bicycle shop loceng) previously from Dang Wangi, heritage shop, Roija the tailors "velcro-ing my evening jacket" for my new box camera #10TGbuild and father, son badminton sports shop "you buy this at supermarket ah?" looking at my badminton racquet.....

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29 August 2020— Most Chatty Grandma, she just kept talking to me in every dialect i could recognise, from hakka, teo chew, kwong tong, hainan, hokkien, huar yee, 'panai ah' (pandai ah /smart ah) she said, in my most broken mandarin cantonese malay nyonya in trying to have a conversation. My recommended bundle shop for jackets from Communist China. for use in my latest camera build. I hardly negotiated, just by passing all the money i had to the cutest por por. I bought two jackets here too, back in 2014. (Kedai Kasut Sinni Enterprise) #KantaPortraits #kantaboxkamra #4Woodie #10TGbuild @ Kampung baru, sungai buloh

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18 April– Say Hello to Kamera no.10 Tong camera (working name). Built mostly during our 'Lockdown'. It is the 5th generation of instant-portrait cameras I've built, this one a development from the main camera no.1 Interchange with many design upgrades. I have gathered many thoughts on how to make this build as simple and easy as possible, using found materials and inspired from my experience with indigenous communities here on the Peninsular with their building methods and materials used. Even some of the Tong (containers) are from their villages.

It is still not complete, because I don't have access to getting some paint/ build materials, tools and other photographic materials in the studio during this lockdown period. But I'm happy to share this new prototype range and some of the new features it will be able to perform. (Credit to FABLAB of Taipei too for helping in making a crucial part, back in November 2019).

- Much lighter about 1.5kg (below 2kg i think, don't have my weighing scale)
- waterproof! for washing
- rear standard movements (for fine focusing)
- vertical and horizontal format
- 4x5"and smaller multi-format print size
- interchangeable lenses
- colour prints (BW as well) chemical prints!
- handheld box cameras (used in combination)
- HDPE plastics, highly recyclable and remoulded